The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-09-28
Pith and Point.


delphia is in much-neglected condition.
A KENTUCKY bcycler was chased for
three miles recently by bull which caught
sight of his red lantern.
ONE organ-grinder in New Orleans has
been killed by leaning against an electric
light post and another, through the same
agency, has become incapable of grinding.
THE new Peoples Palace in London will
probably be one of the largest technical
schools in the world. The buildings are de-
signed to accommodate nearly 10000
students.
A LARGE terrapin was nailed in a box and
given neither food nor drink for three
months. When it was taken out it was
found to weigh an ounce more than it did
when it was putin.
DID you ever" said one preacher to
another, stand at the door after your SER
mon and listen to what people said about it
as they passed out?' The other replied:
az did once "a pause and sigh" but I'll
never do so again. "-Philddelphid CAL.
A MACHINE has been invented that will
sew on 5000 buttons in one day. This is too
much. No man wants 5000 buttons sewed
on single garment he wears. The pro-
fusely-buttoned dresses worn by the ladies'
a year ago didn't contain over 2,700 but
Consideration Herald,
THE New Orleans Picdyune tells this
story: Trying to make her country cousin
presentabe at table, city young lady said
Now, Lem, when pie is served you must
not use your knife in eating it, Gosh all
hemlock, Tody, never do | alters take
my piece er pie right into my hand when |
eats it, That settled Lem"
The meanest man in Boston has been re-
ported. He calls himself a practical joker,
and it is said that having noticed on a GER
tain day of the week pudding was placed
on the ledge of window to cool, he bought
a bean-blower and a box of mandrake pills.
1t is also said that buildings are no longer
exposed on that back window.
A FARMER near Harrisburg raised thirty
two water-meons this year, and he has had
to shoot salt into the legs of seven different
boys to keep the melons at home. His
lawyers fees and court costs have been
S265 to date. Divide by thirty-two and you
get the cost of a Pennsylvania melon, though
the old man had lots of fun in shooting
Detroit Free Press
IT is said of Themistocles that he could
call by their names all the people of Athens,
which city then numbered 10000 inhabitants.
Themis. was pretty smart, but we have our
opinion of a man who memories the names
of citys entire population in order to have
an excuse for not buying copy of the city
directory when the agent comes around
with the book.-NoristoVn Herald.
CHICAGO newspaper reporter has dis
covered that " Christopher Columbus is
living quietly in that city with his wife and
family" As Mr.. Columbus must be over
four hundred years old now, the announce
| ment that he is living quietly " with his
family Is not as surprising as would DE tne
statement that he is in the habit of going
about town O. nights, painting things red
NOrriStO'Cn Herald.
A YOUNG man who was about to enter a
! drinkng-saloon suddenly stopped, and with
a set look upon his face walked rapidly
away. Sir, said an old gentleman who had
observed his movements, you fill my heart
with Joy. You have resolved never to enter
that accursed place agan?" 6 won't at
present, at least, sir" responded the youth ;
xrTtruA hnyN1xr tD mat hot
owe the proprietor seventy-five cents. -
Iid-BHS.
THERE are two things which Fogg who
has been spending few days in the coun-
try this summer cannot understand. He
wonders why they don't have their beautiful
sunrises at few hours later in the morning,
so that fellow could enjoy them without
getting up so confoundedly early; and he
also wonders why the farmers don't get
their hay in in the winter, and thus give
their horses an opportunity to devote them
selves in summer to the entertainment OF
visitors from the city.-Bos;on Transcript.
A YEAR or two ago an old French mer-
chant died who, for half century, had car
red on large retail business in New York
Philadelphia and one or two southern cities
with marked success. His methods were
peculiar No clerk nor salesman was per
mitted to urge recommend any goods
offered for sale. He was to show the article
and state the price. The customer thus
bought at his own risk. The merchant did
not cheat, but if the buyer cheated himself
he did not interpose.-Dry Goods Chronicle.
A MAN who spent three hours the other
day in the lobby of the Palmer House
Chicago, gives the following statistics about
the people who came in during that time
One-legged men who came in, AZ; one-armed
men, IS; men who wore glasses, 40 men
who wore mustaches, 106; men who wore
full boards, 5S men who had no hair Oh
their faces, 70; men who wore Prince AL.
berss, 100; men who didn't, 100; men who
went to the bar, 40; men who came in and
sat down and said nothing, and then got uT
and went out $50.
THERE is a firm in Philadelphia which
paints pictures by the yard. The work is
simple. A piece of canvas, nearly 100 feet
long, is stretched in gallery shaped like &
corridor. On each picture-which, by the
way cost "a .50-fve men were employed
Each man had his particular line. One pu
in the foreground, another the background
and still another did the clouds and the
cows you browsing in the pasture. A
fourth man did the trees and shrubbery. Ii
this way they were enabled to work fast
In exactly three hours five of those land
scapes were finished, which is thirty-sx min
utes' time given to each. The fifth man di,
the finishing touches and perhaps performed
more and better work than any of TIL
others.-CleUeldnd Plaindedler.
AFTER all the abuse that has been heape,
upon hot bread, am glad to lend my vote
in its defence Properly made that is, with
out pernlClOuS alkdU OF nall- DaKluR-l nav
found it it not only as easily digested, bu
many times more so, than any cereal foot
that my dyspeptic patients eat and it is in
finitely more palatable. Hot rolls, as pur
chased from a frst-class city bakery, ar
among the most desirable of morning foods
/ regret that cannot say so much for oat
meal, though many persons seem to thin
that it constitutes the most needful and nj
tritious portion of their breakfast. But re
cent experiments prove that by far til
greater part of what is taken passes throug
the body unchanged acting merely as a
rritant to sluggish bowels as it goes along
To digest this intractable food properl
hard outdoor labor seems to be necessary
and am convinced that the only nutrtiv
value it has for majority of my readers
found in the cream that is eaten with i
which would much better be taken Alone
Cor american Magazine for October
THE federal Union was strong proc
that there is luck in odd numbers. In add
ton to the fact that the colonies numbere
thirteen is the circumstances that the Coz
stitution was formed just thirteen year
after the first meeting of the continents
congress. Among the leading members
the convention odd numbers prevailed i
point of age. Franklin was eghty-on,